How to Survive Our Parents (Or, I was raised by wolves and my sister's going to kill me for writing this.)

My mom, whenever I would rustle up the cats as a kid, would say, "Susi, don't mollox the cat!" So, like, there's no such word as mollox, at least not that I could find. And there's no way she can stop me now. I'm still molloxing my cats--Lester, Timmy, and Gully.

This is a picture of my family before me. Or, as I like to say, "My family BM."

Mom was born in Bird's Run, West Virginia. What I later referred to as West Virginny.


I posted a version of my Mom's word "mollox" on Facebook the other...

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